Theater Loop — ‘Mary Poppins’ breaks down in Chicago; Nanny stuck in no-fly zone
A computer central to the new touring production of Disney’s “Mary Poppins” malfunctioned about 15 minutes into Saturday night’s Chicago performance at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, causing the entire show to be shut down and the frustrated audience sent home.
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FAILBlog: Theater Fail

Theme Park Rangers: Celebrate a Dream Come True nearly washed away
I have never seen a parade disintegrate before my eyes, but that’s what happened in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Thursday when I watched the Celebrate a Dream Come True parade nearly wash away. … The princess float got stuck halfway down Main [...]

A recent comment on a Reddit posting:
At my company, we had some guy from another come in to go over some things with the bosses and a few key people. After his presentation, they turned off the projector, and he whipped out a dry-erase marker and started writing notes on the white board for everyone [...]

Veteran AV pro Rick Pillars, (It’s a Rap Productions) sent in a great story:

Once upon a time I supplied audio visual labor to clients both locally and from all over the nation. We had some interesting times. This one time we were setting up a pretty large show. The union labor that was supposed to [...]

Strelitzia — Wardrobe Malfunction

In back? There were buttons in the back? I craned my neck to see and then turned to look back into the hall mirror. Oh my. Apparently there were buttons in the back, from the waist to the hem. The dry cleaner had unbuttoned every single one of them to facilitate ironing. [...]

Another one of those situations where a good rehearsal would have helped…

Thanks to Richard Garber of Joyful Public Speaking for the heads up.

So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager… — I STILL Want To Get Married Outside
Wait until she gets the bill from the DJ that she forced to setup his equipment in the damp wedding garden. His extension cords sat on the rainy grass and kept blowing the circuit breaker and finally burnt out one [...]

Examples of what you might call “unintentional foreshadowing”:

We don’t need to tape down that extension cord, no one’s going to be going over there.
It’s a brand new projector, why should we spend that much money on a backup bulb.
They had a pipe burst the last time we did a meeting there. There’s no way anything [...]

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